[Tfug] Perl Scripts and Email

[Chad Woolley]

Also, Java Web Start can achieve "works on windows without installing
anything", but that's a lot of work.  Ruby is simpler and cooler :)

-- Chad

On 7/12/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> By "work on windows machines", do you mean without installing
> anything?  In that case, I'd say you need some .netish sort of thing
> which will let build you an executable.
>
> If this is just for a few boxes and you can install stuff (or write a
> script to), I'd suggest just using Ruby.  ActionMailer (part of Ruby
> on Rails) is a crossplatform mail API:
>
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/ActionMailer
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer
> http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
>
> Good luck, and thanks for the laptop ;)
> -- Chad
>
> On 7/11/06, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm working on some Perl scripts for work - the script greps through
> > logfiles and if certain strings are matched (eg - "virus found", "spyware
> > found", etc) they are to send me an email with the relevant client data (IP
> > address, client info, date/time).  I know I can use perl and sendmail to
> > shoot me an email with this information, but I need the script to work on
> > Windows machines as well.  Is this possible?
> >
> > I'm doing the research now, but I was curious if anyone else had done this
> > before and knew the answer....
> >
> > Thanks again
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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> > Chris Robbins
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